Feynman rules for wave turbulence
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Rosenhaus, Vladimir
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It has long been known that weakly nonlinear field theories can have a late-time stationary state that is not the thermal state, but a wave turbulent state (the Kolmogorov-Zakharov state) with a far-from-equilibrium cascade of energy. We go beyond the existence of the wave turbulent state, studying fluctuations about the wave turbulent state. Specifically, we take a classical field theory with an arbitrary quartic interaction and add dissipation and Gaussian-random forcing. Employing the path integral relation between stochastic classical field theories and quantum field theories, we give a prescription, in terms of Feynman diagrams, for computing correlation functions in this system. We explicitly compute the two-point and four-point functions of the field to next-to-leading order in the coupling. Through an appropriate choice of forcing and dissipation, these correspond to correlation functions in the wave turbulent state. As a check, we reproduce the next-to-leading order term in the kinetic equation. The correlation functions and corrections to the KZ state that we compute should, in principle, be experimentally measurable quantities.
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2022-04-12
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68:58 minutes
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Lecture